Atari-ST Longplay [001] The Great Giana Sisters

http://longplays.net

Played by: Hipoonios

My first attempt to record a Atari ST game. I don't play very well in this game.

I have only played the Amiga and C64 version before. This version is not as good as the Amiga version because the sounds are crap and there is no scrolling.

No warps used.

The intro plays too fast. I think its an emulator error.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Atari
• ST
• game
• video
• walkthrough
• speedrun
• longplay
• end
• ending

[Paar86]

May I ask how did you record this footage?

[cubex55]

@Paar86

Emulator + AviOut

[jamon74]

Hi guys,

i'm looking for the name of a two players plateform game with fixed screens like bubble bobble (excuse my english), many flowers to take then monsters turned evil, you could turn monsters into a bonus letter by smashing them 3 times to complete a word like bonus and then earn a bonus life. There were boss each 10 scenes and the last one was a minotaur.

Please help me!

[cubex55]

@jamon74

Sounds like Rodland ;)

[Ahle2]

This game game was before ST coders came up with good techniques for doing scrolling without fancy hardware like the Amiga, C64, Atari 800 ..etc

People have to understand that the ST had NO hardware at all to boost graphics performance, EVERYTHING had to be done with the CPU.

[The100thAttempt]

You should record some ST games that are actually of interest, like Sundog - The Frozen Legacy and the newer version of Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon...

Kind of useless to do crappier versions of games that exist on other systems.

[tuegy]

Does anyone know where to find super STario land?

[jr2nd]

you can see why nintendo went ape shit over this pure mario clone! ;p;

[tombert256]

Considering that there is no scrolling, they do a decent job simulating it.

[janmansde3dede]

Who wouldn't thought that the designer of this game went on making turrican ?

[ObVReboot]

@rastansaga360 - you CAN set the screen to a boundary of 2 bytes using the sync-scroll technique. Take a look at the Cuddly Demos by TCB as this was the first demo to use this trick. Alien/ST CNX then invented the 4-bit hardscroller so you can set the screen onto 4 pixel boundaries but only in overscan. Look at the Punish Your Machine Demo for the first example of this technique.

[LOveERDos]

is so nice the music in this game

[gamewizard]

@fuzzywzhe

The lack of scrolling is not surprising at all. The custom chips in the Amiga had 3 years development and Atari was left with only a few months to cobble together a competing machine when the Atari-Amiga deal fell apart. The ST isn't a bad machine considering the time constraint the engineers were under and the fact that it had to be built using off the shelf parts, no custom hardware. It still beats the crap out of any 286 PC with EGA graphics or a 68000 based Mac.

[gamewizard]

@weirdproq

The big problem with the ST was to get a game to sound really good you had to do some CPU intensive tricks that made smooth side scrolling difficult to achieve while music was playing which is why the ST version of this game does not scroll smoothly like the others. The sound chip ties up the CPU. The coders had to choose between smooth scrolling and the best possible sound quality and scrolling lost.